Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary SnyderUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1994 M04 1 - 200 pages In Nature's Kindred Spirits James McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led to dramatic conversions in their thinking and behavior. By embracing the ecstasy of nature, they reject modern alienation and spiritual confusion. |
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... literary figures as Italo Calvino , Leslie Marmon Silko , Joyce Carol Oates , and John Fowles . The volume concludes with an annotated bibliography of books on natural history se- lected by nature writers who served as the volume's ...
... literary critics in the early 1960s , Gary Snyder has received steady attention from such important literary scholars as Charles Altieri , Richard Howard , Thomas Lyon , Thomas Parkinson , and Sherman Paul . There are four longer ...
... Literary Naturalists from Henry David Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America ( 1980 ) , Stephen Fox's John Muir and His Legacy : The American Conserva- tion Movement ( 1981 ) , and Oelschlaeger's Idea of Wilderness . While I hope ...
... literary predecessors Jack London , Robinson Jeffers , and B. Traven . That means they are darker , more Darwinian than the other writers ' associations , aligning as much with a modernist tem- perament as with the more cheerful views ...
... life marks them apart from the main currents of twentieth-century literary and social thinking that have most attracted critics and historians. NATURE'S KINDRED SPIRITS 1 Kindred Spirits The simplest and most Introduction xix.